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What If Political Rhetoric Is Unavoidable, An Irreducible Part Of Politics Itself? In Contrast To The Familiar Denunciations Of Political Horse-trading, Grandstanding, And Corporate Manipulation From Those Lamenting The Crisis In Liberal Democracy, This Book Argues That The Politics Of Politics, Usually Associated With Rhetoric And Sophistry, Is, Like It Or Not, Part Of Politics From The Start. Denunciations Of The Sorry State Of Current Politics Draw On A Dogmatism And Moralism That Share An Essentially Metaphysical And Platonic Ground. Failure To Deconstruct That Ground Generates A Philosophically And Politically Debilitating Selfrighteousness That This Book Attempts To Understand And Undermine. After A Detailed Analysis Of Foucault's Influential Late Concept Of Parrhesia, Which Is Shown To Be Both Philosophically And Politically Insufficient, Close Readings Of Heidegger, Kierkegaard, And Derrida Trace Complex Relations Between Sophistry, Rhetoric, And Philosophy; Truth And Untruth; Decision; Madness And Stupidity In An Exploration Of The Possibility Of Developing An Affirmative Thinking Of Politics That Is Not Mortgaged To The Metaphysics Of Presence. It Is Suggested That Heide

Author

Geoffrey Bennington

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780823270521

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Science